Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-boiled music

From: Juri Nummelin ( jurnum@utu.fi)
Date: 14 Apr 2000


Mark Sullivan wrote:

> Juri wrote:
> "Yes, but Bill Haley and his Comets aren't actually very hardboiled.
> They are, well, more cozy than hardboiled... at least to my mind."
>
> I think part of this is that the song has become divorced from time and
> setting.

You're absolutely right. "Rock Around the Clock" sounds nowadays very lame, but must've been quite a riot back in the fifties. Sorry, Bill!

Juri jurnum@utu.fi

--
# To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 14 Apr 2000 EDT